An increasingly unchecked surveillance state
The US government extensively monitors its citizens' internet activities, with dangerous effects on personal liberties.
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Chinese hackers who breached Google gained access to sensitive data, U.S. officials say
Chinese hackers who breached Google’s servers several years ago gained access to a sensitive database with years’ worth of information about U.S.
The Bigger Story Behind the AP Spying Scandal
Attack on the Press You know that the Department of Justice tapped scores of phone lines at the Associated Press. You might have heard that the ...
CIA Troublemaking in Caucasus
It is clear that Russia’s arrest and expulsion of two CIA agents who were trying to recruit members of the Russian intelligence service fighting ...
CIA Honors Benghazi Chief ‘Bob’
At a secret February ceremony at CIA headquarters in Langley, Va., the chief of the CIA’s base in Benghazi the night of the 9/11 anniversary attacks ...
Pentagon to take over some CIA drone operations : sources
By Tabassum Zakaria and Mark Hosenball WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's administration has decided to give the Pentagon control of ...
Editorial: Not enough reason to snoop on reporters
One needn't be a fan of Fox News to find troubling the revelation that the Obama Justice Department obtained telephone and email records of James ...
13 Ways to Know if the Government is Reading Your Email
The National Security Agency is the primary cryptographic and signals-intelligence agency of the United States. To spy on foreign communications, it ...
I Think I Speak For The Entire Class When I Say "Holy Crap!"
The folks at the National Security Archive have released a report on how close we really came to a nuclear war with a disintergrating Soviet Union in ...
Shared Services Can Be a Money Maker for Some Agencies
Agencies counteract dwindling IT budgets by offering services to other divisions.